Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/06/29/chronicle/   Chronicle · June 29, 2011 The Foundation "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." --George Washington Editorial Exegesis Rather than drill, Obama plays games with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "President Barack Obama has chosen a curious moment to release 30 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The president initially justified the release as protection against disruptions in supply caused by the conflict in Libya. Later, the administration changed the explanation, saying Obama hopes to stabilize gasoline prices going into the summer vacation driving season. Libya is an important source of oil. But the fighting there has not had a major impact on ...

"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position." --George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 Follow The Patriot Post :                You have received this email because you are subscribed to Founder's Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post . To subscribe to Founder's Quote Daily and The Patriot Post , link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe/ . To manage your subscription or to unsubscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/manage/ and log in with your email address.  

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them." --Thomas Jefferson Fellow Patriot, On Constitution Day of this year, September 17th, The Patriot Post will celebrate our 15th year on the Internet. That doesn't sound like many years, but amazingly, we were the first, and thus now the oldest of conservative policy digests on the Web. It's hard to believe that, back in 1996, there were only a handful of conservative organizations breaking ground in what was then this "new medium." Rush Limbaugh had led the way into radio. Fox was charting new territory into cable television, and we were launching ...